Quotes About Pauses

Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.

Avoid the suave flow of prose that's the trademark of the glib writer. An easy and smooth style is all very well, but it takes no chances and has no seductive wrinkles, no pauses for thought.

What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

three situations that deserve punctuation: transitions, milestones, and pits.

This is what we mean by "thinking in moments": to recognize where the prose of life needs punctuation.

I do pauses, pauses work for me

Tori is the woman in your neighborhood who stops by your garden, pauses, and gets you going for three hours on the topic of lilies that grow best in winter sun. Later, you'll walk by her pea patch and discover the most spectacular flower, not exactly what you planted, but something that shows the influence of the tips you shared.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura.

Although the human heart may stop and rest as it climbs the peaks of an attachment, it rarely pauses on the slippery downward slope of hatred.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

I call time-outs like these "vigilance breaks"—brief pauses before high-stakes encounters to review instructions and guard against error.

I call time-outs like these "vigilance breaks"—brief pauses before high-stakes encounters to review instructions and guard against error. Vigilance breaks have gone a long way in preventing the University of Michigan Medical Center from transmogrifying into the Hospital of Doom during the afternoon trough. Tremper says that in the time since he implemented these breaks, the quality of care has risen, complications have declined, and both doctors and patients are more at ease.

Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.

Is it the pauses, not the parties, that create the friendship?

Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important art is to omit"; the key to being a master conversationalist is to listen at least as much as you talk. Just as the other arts include pauses in a dramatic play, white margins around printed text, and space between a singer's phrases, conversation is about silences as well as about words.

He was not analytical enough yet to have discovered that there are certain loves, and certain phases of love, which bring perfect happiness only in their pauses and intervals, as water grows clear when one's progress has ceased to stir it.

Just as we need pauses between notes for music to sound good, and just as we need punctuation in a sentence for it to be coherent, we should see rest and reflection and passivity—and even sitting on the sofa—as an intrinsic and essential part of life that is needed for the whole to make sense.

Add Pauses Every good storyteller knows that a pause can do so many things. It can heighten the tension of the scene, or simply allow the audience to absorb the information given to them, or give the listener an opportunity to laugh or respond back with a "Really?", "Oh my gosh", or "No way!

As you're creating your story, think through where you'd want pauses. Try to put yourself in the listener's shoes–if you were the listener and you were being told your story, where would you want pauses?

I would define a Coarse Actor as one who can remember the lines but not the order in which they come. it is perhaps not an entirely satisfactory definition, and a close friend whom I regard as easily the most desperately bad actor in West Bromwich suggests that a Coarse Actor is one who can remember the pauses but not the lines.

One of the pleasures of following baseball is that every day its characters participate in an unfolding narrative of events in which there are heroes, clowns, and villains, moments of comedy and tragedy, and plenty of time during the pauses between pitches for daydreaming.